Monthly Archives: April 2018

The Financial Times is the advocate/apologist for Neo-Liberalism in the political present: Macri in Argentina, Moreno in Ecuador, and Macron in France. Even in the face of the utter collapse of this Economic Utopianism, in American and Britain, the editors of … Continue reading →

I just have to wonder at this whole political melodrama that stars the notorious grifter Donald Trump and his prosecutors, two former FBI hacks Mueller and Comey. Based on the word of Hillary Clinton, and her political coterie,  without an examination … Continue reading →

In his April 12, 2018 column Bret Stephens writes: On Saturday I took my family to have a closer look at Syria. This was on the Golan Heights, from a roadside promontory overlooking the abandoned Syrian town of Quneitra. The … Continue reading →

As much as people might like to see Trump go, they should realize that the price is an increasingly distorted view of Russia as the new Nazi Germany and hence an increasingly feverish push for war. A central part of … Continue reading →

It is more than interesting that Mr. Sand worked, in his youth, for a radio repair factory, in Jaffa, and was bowled over by The Mandarins, or at least Ms. de Beauvoir’s depiction of the world of an ingrown coterie … Continue reading →

The final votes in the 2017 French elections were Macron 20,257,167 , Le Pen 10,584,646, Abstentions 11, 416,454, White or spoiled ballots 4, 045,395. The Rolling Strikes represent not just the ‘over-privileged’ Union members, as argued by Macron and his … Continue reading →

Mark Mazower’s ‘capsule reviews’ of these five books offers an insight into the avoidance of the role that the Corporatist imperative has/had played in the rise of Fascism! Not surprising that the Financial Times would avoid, at all cost, this … Continue reading →

The Financial Times editors couldn’t trust this essay proclaiming the Good News  of Macron’s ‘Reform’ of the railways, along with his other Neo-Liberalizations of France, to its usual stable of apologists for the dismal, indeed demonstrable failure, of this particular … Continue reading →

Andy Divine in his latest essay takes on the vexing question of Gina Haspel. Mr. Divine’s record of support for the Iraq War is recorded here in his 136 page mea culpa: This edited by his hirelings Mr. Appel and … Continue reading →

I saw this essay by Mr. Luce last week and have tried to ignore it , yet it keeps returning to my thoughts. Like that grain of sand in an oyster? Perhaps the spectacle of this Neo-Liberal advocate/apologist  pointing to … Continue reading →